GOODBYE TO JUNE
NATURE’S TRANSITION FROM SPRING TO SUMMER
Issac Levitan, A Day in June, detail, c. 1895, oil on canvas, Private Collection
I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
L.M. Montgomery*
A Day in June by one of Russia’s celebrated landscape artists Issac Levitan (1860-1900), is a final farewell to a transitional month that begins in spring and ends in summer.
For more on L.M. Montgomery, the author of the popular series Anne of Green Gables, click:
A Day in November—In the Quiet of the Woods
And to view another of Levitan’s works, click:
In the Mood for Waterlilies—Alternatives to Monet
*Source of quote unknown.
The above image is used solely for educational purposes and in the U.S. public domain.
